Don’t patronize me...I’m thorough when I look into something that is important to me and how I determine the truth about it....and yes I wanted to know what the youth were saying...both on campuses and the tech sites and other areas they gather....what do you expect...I go to the local governors office and see what they’re saying?
I have concerns for the young people today that are not getting the truth..and further they are robots flitting from one device to another and cannot be detached for a moment. They are being spoon fed constantly...and Snowdens just another long line of those feeding them.
I don’t care if Obama supporters are disillusioned or not...TOO LATE...they put him in office...and that a second time..and now they want to squawk because some 29 year old techy tells them their Gov. spies on them?.. Give me a break!
That’s odd. I went to the site to try and read through and my mouse, keyboard and everything stopped working. I had to do a hard restart.
Evidently you are seeing different evidence. I look at (mostly) mainstream discussion boards that typically run left of center, but not hard left (ie., I consider DU hard left). Especially I look at boards where I “know” some of the contributors to some degree. In recent weeks the tone of the discussion has changed dramatically. Yes, on the larger forums once a discussion has been going for a while, “someone” sends in the Obama trolls, but typically, in the first few hours of a discussion, or following “developments” in the topic, the comments are heavily anti-Obama/NSA/IRS (etc.)
Granted that what both of us are seeing is anecdotal in a sense, but Obama’s poll support HAS slipped significantly since these revelations (IRS & Snowden) came out, and that is no accident. The Snowden affair even generated TWO questions in the Miss USA contest last night, and no matter that the Michelle Obama adorer, of all people, gave an almost correct and coherent answer, while the other contestant looked like a complete idiot: Simply the fact that these issues have climbed to that level of awareness is a positive sign.
Now, if you say a tough question about Benghazi would have been even better, I’m with you, but I’ll take what I can.
On the other hand, I totally disagree with your “not caring” if Obama supporters are disillusioned. That’s the best news we could have as the 2014 elections approach.